The complete online text of The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift.

For most general readers, the name Jonathan Swift is associated only with his satiric masterpiece Gulliver's Travels. They are not aware that, in addition to it and hundreds of poems, he wrote a great deal of nonfictional prose, much of it of considerabl...

On 14 August 1725, Jonathan Swift wrote to his friend Charles Ford: "I have finished my Travells, and I am now transcribing them; they are admirable Things, and will wonderfully mend the World." At the age of fifty-seven, Swift had acquired sufficient ex...

(Editor's note: In a departure from normal DLB procedure, the author cites conjectural dates of composition, instead of dates of publication, after Swift 's titles in the text.) Jonathan Swift --author of A Tale Of A Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726)...

David Woolley, ed. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Vol. 1, Letters 1690-1714. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999. 650 pp. $73.95. DAVID WOOLLEY'S NEW EDITION of Swift's letters presents a clear and authoritative text, with thousands of errors, discrepancies and confusions present...

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift A Review Article: DAVID WOOLLEY, ED. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift: Volume I, Letters 1690-1714. Frankfurt am Main, 1999. Pp. 650. $99.00. The greatest writer in the Anglican tradition is Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). In the light of his...